Echolocation. The crowned bat perceives its surroundings through echolocation. It is blind beyond its blindsight radius. If the crowned bat is deafened, it loses its blindsight and is effectively blinded until it can hear again. It is immune to effects that rely on sight.
Sound Sensitivity. The crowned bat is vulnerable to thunder damage. When it takes thunder damage, it also loses its blindsight until the start of its next turn.
Predatory Reflexes. The Crowned bat has advantage on initiative rolls while in dim light or darkness.
AmbushPredator. The crowned bat has advantage on attack rolls against any creature it has surprised.
Wall Climber.
The Crowned bat can climb difficult surfaces, including ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Multiattack. The crowned bat makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 14 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.
Leaping Strike (Recharge 4–6).
The crowned bat leaps up to 25 feet toward a creature it can sense with blindsight and makes a claw attack. On a hit, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6) slashing damage and must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Awareness of surroundings. When a creature the crowned bat can sense with its blindsight makes an attack roll against it, the crowned bat can use its reaction to impose disadvantage on that attack.
The crowned bat must not be deafened or restrained to use this ability.
Description
Large horse sized creatures evolved from bats in the darkest corners of the Underdark. They are hairless, wingless, and eyeless, yet possess excellent climbing abilities and have retained their echolocation to hunt in absolute darkness.
The Crowned Bat earned its name from its large, protruding skull and bony ridges trailing from its head to the base of its spine, as well as being the largest bat creature. It has pale ashen-grey skin and moves quadrupedally. They are savage but not mindless—the Crowned Bat's movements are calculated and they will retreat if outmatched and return when their prey grows complacent.
Normally found within the Underdark, these predators have occasionally been seen above ground, especially in dense forests or cave-ridden hills.
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